Reason # ??? Why School Taxes Are High

Hi Everyone:

Just when you thought you had heard it all regarding high school taxes; Buffalo, New York may well take the cake and win the award for the dumbest ever. Common sense must have been dead and buried in Buffalo because you could never guess, not in a million years, what their teacher contract covers. The Buffalo school union really snowed the taxpayers with an unbelievable pert covered by their contract.

So what is this pert? Before I tell you, keep this in mind; Buffalo taxpayers shelled out $9 million just for last year, to cover this pert for 500 teachers and their dependents who used the pert. And the pert is, drum roll please.............................................................................................. cosmetic surgery?! Now mind you that this is not cosmetic surgery due to an accident or mastectomy etc., which are usually covered under a medical benefits plan, but for elective cosmetic surgery. This is wrong on every conceivable level. Shame on the union for asking for such an outrageous pert like elective cosmetic surgery. Equal shame also has to be placed on Buffalo's school administration for accepting this pert as part of the contract. What were they thinking? Oh yea, they weren't!

Sometimes I feel like the world in which we live is upside down and I am living in a Bizzaro world, (see Seinfeld the TV show). Why would it be necessary to have cosmetic surgery included in any contract what so ever? Are Buffalo teachers and their dependents born so ugly and deformed that only elective surgery can correct their plight? Do Buffalo teachers and their dependents enter lots of beauty contests? Does Buffalo win an award for having the most beautiful teachers? Obviously the answers to all of these is a resounding NO! So the only reason this pert became part of the contract is due to a complete and utter lack of common sense on any one's part. Shame on them all!

This is a prime example of how union contracts have gotten so out of control and so far beyond their scope of coverage since their inception to protect employees rights and pay. Their aren't enough adjectives that the Buffalo taxpayers should be shouting at the top of their lungs to rescind this pert and any others like it. As part of trying to get this country back on its feet, I firmly believe that all union contracts must be reviewed with a fine tooth comb and remove outrageous and costly perts such as cosmetic surgery. If the unions don't like it, TS!!!!!!! They should have never received such a pert in the first place. Shame on everyone!!!

Common sense rules and greed drools.

Til next week.

Peter